Knewel v. Egan

delivered -the opinion of the Court.-

This case comes here on appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of South Dakota from an order and judgment. of that court on writ of habeas corpus, discharging the appellee from the custody of the appellant as sheriff of Minnehaha, County, South Dakota.

Appellee was charged, on information by the. state’s attorney of that county, with the presentation of a false insurance claim in violation of. § 4271 of the Revised Code , of 1919 of South Dakota. He kvas convicted of violation of the statute, after trial by jury, in the South…